Timeline for how far away can something be from the earth and still be in orbit?
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| Oct 6, 2012 at 23:03 | comment | added | Jaime | You could set up a second small moon at L3 of the Earth-Moon system, yes. Actually, the L1, L2, and L3 points are not stable, so the third object will have trouble remaining exactly at L3. But there are stable orbits around these, called halo orbits: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_orbit | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 17:53 | vote | accept | sova | ||
| Oct 5, 2012 at 16:07 | comment | added | sova | perfect, thank you :) Do you think it'd be possible to have an object orbit the earth in perfect diametric opposition to the moon? Like, if for kicks I wanted to throw another moon up there and wanted them to never collide? | |
| Oct 5, 2012 at 15:49 | history | answered | Jaime | CC BY-SA 3.0 |